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U.S. Declaration of War with Germany, 6 April 1917Vintage Photographs - Miscellaneous
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war.  Specifically this sub-section contains miscellaneous photos that do not sit comfortably within any other section.

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U.S. Declaration of War with Germany, 6 April 1917 (CNP) Oregon pine for the Linda Vista Encampment (CNP)
New Liberty Truck (CNP) American locomotive for war service in France (CNP)
Car of a U.S. ambulance train for American forces (CNP) Cinematograph in the service (CNP)
American Y.M.C.A. headquarters in Paris (CNP) Crowd before the Washington statue in Paris (CNP)
Signaling by Heliograph (CNP) Polish women working for the relief of refugees (NW)
Heliograph signal post (CNP) Searchlight transported by motor car (CNP)
Camouflaged searchlight near the Marne (CNP) Count Ferdinand Zeppelin (CPE)
James W. Gerard (CPE) The royal palace at Malmo, Sweden (CPE)
Britain's women workers (MF) A crippled former soldier working with an artificial limb (CPE)
Koenigsberg (NW) An Austrian benzine locomotive for railroad or road (CPE)
A collapsible British bicycle (CPE) Collecting waste metal for military uses (CPE)
Durazzo on the Albanian coast (CPE) An encampment of Turkish and Arabian camel riders (CPE)
Soldiers' memorial on All-Saints' Day at Bagneux (CPE) The famous Czernavoda bridge across the Danube (CPE)
Grigory Rasputin surrounded by admirers (WW) Mme. Botchkareva (WW)
A Bulgarian spy shot by Greek police (WW) Signing the Armistice at Brest-Litovsk (WW)
Y.M.C.A. gives comfort to Porto Rican troops (WW) Salvation Army members baking cakes and pies for servicemen (WW)
A Y.M.C.A. hut welcoming servicemen from many countries (WW) Servicemen playing checkers in a Y.M.C.A. hut (WW)
U.S. Post Office in France (WW) Henry Ford (WW)
Thomas A. Edison and Charles M. Schwab (WW) Learning the art of rock camouflage (WW)
Manufacturing of U.S. rifles (WW) U.S. field generator and tractor with searchlight trailer (WW)
Members of the British Salvage Corps bringing in weaponry (WW) The Rathaus in Breslau (NW)
Sizeable quantity of 66-millimetre bombs (WW) Danzig (NW)
U.S. Marines advancing in motor trucks (WW) U.S. troops repairing motorcycles (WW)
Stacks of German rifles gathered by British Salvage Corps (WW) German rifles and stores captured by British Salvage Corps (WW)
Ghent in Belgium (NW) Dummy German mortar constructed from a wine barrel and a cart (NW)
Three blind soldiers at a rest home in London (NW) Belgian girls in holiday costume (NW)
Strasburg (NW) Count Zeppelin (NW)
Blinded French soldiers escorted by a nurse (NW) French Foreign Legion soldiers washing their clothes (NW)
American consulate in Salonika (NW) View of Sarajevo from the suburbs (NW)
Diploma sent by French govt to families of citizens killed in the war (NW) A street scene in Jericho (NW)
An archway in Jerusalem (NW) Moving reinforcements toward the French lines (NW)
A soldier grinding coffee with the butt of his rifle (NW) Picnic at Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, 20 June 1917 (NW)
A female trooper - posed! (MF) Gavrilo Princip seized following assassination of Franz Ferdinand (GW)
German explorer Dr Gustav Nachtigal (GW) Changing the guard outside the Governor's Palace, Cairo (GW)
Count Zeppelin (GW) Egyptian troops on guard outside the Governor's Palace, Cairo (GW)
Russia's youngest decorated volunteer Constantine Malafeeff aged 15 (GW) The Military Cross, a new wartime decoration (GW)
Russia's oldest volunteer, Ivan Truvanoff, a Cossack veteran (GW) Graeme Thomson, head of the British Transport Department (GW)
Lieutenant James Anson Otho Brooke, V.C. (GW) Second-Lieutenant G. H. Woolley, V.C. (GW)
Captain Francis A. C. Scrimger, V.C. (GW) Arrival of the mails for British Troops at the Front (GW)
Captain Hugh S. Smart, who enlisted as "Thomas Hardy" (GW) Jemadir Mir Dast, V.C. (GW)
Cleaned petrol cans used to store filtered water in Gallipoli (GW) Alsatian children (GW)
Mlle Moreau who shot five German soldiers at Loos (GW) Two embroidered Turkish standards captured by Russians at Erzerum (GW)
Scutari (GW) Reverend Edward Noel Mellish, V.C. (GW)
View of the Kolmanshop diamond mine, German S.W. Africa (GW) Belgian HQ staff in the Yser vicinity (GWS)
Marconi in the Italian Army as Sub-Lieutenant of Engineers (GWS) Wounded officer being decorated in France for bravery (GWS)
German officer demonstrating pistol which fired luminous balls (GWS) James W. Gerard, U.S. Ambassador to Germany (GWS)
German railway truck in Poland converted into a telephone exchange (GWS) A French wire-cutting automobile (GWS)
Mannequin used by French soldiers in grenade-throwing practice (GWS) Lord Rothschild (GWS)
J. Pierpont Morgan (GWS) Dr G T Beilby, British Central Committee of Inventions Board (GWS)
C A Parsons, British Central Committee of Inventions Board (GWS) Earl St Aldwyn, British Chairman of Advice on New Financial Issues (GWS)

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